Running Mercurial test suite on Windows

[Erik Zielke]

Den 08-12-2010 23:40, Patrick Mézard skrev:
> Le 08/12/10 17:42, Erik Zielke a écrit :
>> Hi
>>
>> I have tried to run the test suite on Windows, according to the instructions at http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WindowsTestingPlan
>>
>> I updated my Mercurial clone back to where the queue was last applied, and applied the windows testing queue there.
>>
>> I use Python 2.6, Windows 7 and run the tests from the command prompt. I wasn't sure whether the tests should be run from cygwin, but then there was a problem with paths. Someone else mentioned something about the same thing (I think) on the mailing list a few days ago. So I guess that one should use cmd to run the tests.
> No but you need cygwin configured with LF output on your PATH.
>
Yes, the guide also says that, but can't find info on configuring cygwin 
to that. How is that done?

>> But I ran into some issues with, e.g.:
>>
>> - confusion over the two different paths separators
>> - exit codes: a lot of places tests report 127 instead of 255 as exit code.
>>
>> Can these problems be because I have set up the test suite incorrectly, because they occur in a lot of the tests for me?
> First, I have not spent a lot of time in the past six months updating the patch queue, so you can expect a lot of failures. I have fixed a couple of them recently but I lack of time to do that thouroughly. Secondly, the test suite never passed completely under Windows.

Yes. I have seen there are some patches in the queue with tofix guards. 
It did also understand that the test suite didn't pass completely under 
Windows, so thought I would try to see if it would be possible for me to 
make more of the tests run correctly under Windows.

> When possible, I deal with paths separators by automatically rewriting the output of some shell commands and several mercurial commands directly in pysh. I do that when there is either too much breakage compared to the loss of coverage or when the path separator nature is unimportant.

> Something I should fix is I still run the tests nightly but they never finish cleanly because one of the tests causes run-tests.py to fail when parsing the output (it might be caused by one of my own patch). If I correct this you will have some kind of test result reference here:
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>      http://mezard.eu/hgtests/

Okay.

> --
> Patrick Mézard

Best regards,
Erik Zielke